Saturday, February 9, 2013

When the National Socialists took power in Germany in 1933, they
quickly carried out the systematic reordering and realignment of the
nation’s institutions with their agenda. Business, the press, courts,
labor unions, education, the churches, and other nodes of German civil
society were all coordinated with the Nazi movement. This process was
called the Gleichschaltung.

The Regime is hard at work carrying out our American Gleichschaltung.
Local law enforcement is being coopted with DHS/FEMA dollars.
Healthcare and state governments are likewise suborned by Obamacare.
Finance,too is given a regulatory stick and zero interest rate free
money carrot it can’t refuse.

In Germany, the penalties for noncompliance were severe, and they are
here too. Take, for instance, the Department of “Justice”‘s recent
indictment of rating agency Standard & Poor’s. Like other rating
agencies (and the Fed), it got the housing bubble spectacularly wrong.
Unlike other rating agencies, it rediscovered its commitment to the
truth and downgraded the Regime’s sovereign credit rating in the summer
of 2011 after the debt ceiling impasse.

How curious that the rating agency that told even the tiniest bit of
truth about Regime insolvency is the one DoJ chooses for targeted
killing. Right as we head into fights about the budget sequester.

The message to New Rhodesia’s business community couldn’t be clearer: get with the Gleichschaltung or we will kill you.

I'm not going to get into why he did what he did or his politics, I'm only going to make a simple observation:

In the Los Angeles area where you hear nothing but whining and bitching
from chiefs of police and sheriffs about not having enough manpower due
to budget cuts to effectively police the streets, they've assigned
details to protect 40 of their own that were on ONE man's manifesto, leaving law abiding citizens on their own.

It’s easy for American Rhodies to be discouraged by the daily intel
report we source from the Internet, whether MSM (must at least be aware
of the day’s Regime talking points to the Media Directorate) or FreeFor.
On the discouraging days, it can be valuable to consider a realistic
longer term assessment of why at least some of the Rhodie Remnant might
actually win.

Since at least the time of the Jacobins, the Left has been engaged in
a Long War against Capital. Their Long War on Capital takes many
familiar forms: income taxes, estate taxes, creeping property taxes,
junk fees and fines, creeping inflation, currency debasement, and land
reform, inter alia.
Since at least the mid-60s, the Left has expanded the battlefront,
attacking cultural, social, and human Capital as well (part of its
self-described “long march through the institutions“).
In many respects, their success in these areas has been near-total:
they control the (Regime) MSMedia, higher education, foundations, the
arts (both fine and base), literature, and public education.

But what
price their success? The Cultural Left’s weakness is the same
feature/flaw of any parasite: it destroys its host. In gaining control
of Popular Culture and Mass Education, the Left has destroyed them. (An
echo of destroying the village in order to liberate it.) The Left
controls the shell of the institutions, but the institutions have lost
their efficacy and are also losing what remains of their legitimacy.

Defense Distributed hasn’t yet released the 3D printer files of its
Cuomo mag online, but plans to do so over the weekend, Wilson said. The
group is also working on a 40-round AK magazine design it plans to test
and release soon.

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Defense Distributed, the Austin, Texas-based project by 24-year-old law student Cody Wilson and several others to develop 3D printed firearms and firearm components, or “Wiki Weapons,” on Thursday posted a new video online showing a successful test firing of a new 3D printed high-capacity (30-round) automatic rifle (AR) magazine, named “Cuomo,” after New York State’s gun-control supporting governor Andrew Cuomo.

New York recently passed a law banning all magazines in excess of 7 rounds (except for law enforcement use), the nation’s toughest magazine regulation.

“He [Cuomo] wants to be associated with these magazines,” Wilson
told TPM, reached by phone on Thursday. “Lets make that association
permanent.”

Check out Defense Distributed’s new video of the Cuomo magazine being test fired below:

He’s known as “America’s Toughest Sheriff”. But Joe Arpaio continues to show he deserves the moniker of “America’s JOBS Sheriff”. Because every time Sheriff Joe conducts a raid, he frees up jobs for legal American workers.

Today was no exception, as Maricopa County Sheriff’s deputies raided Sportex Apparel in
Tempe, AZ, a custom-made sports clothing and accessories company – and
arrested 27 illegal aliens, most of whom were caught using stolen or
false identification.

In a seven-month long investigation, deputies learned that as many as
19 employees were using false or stolen IDs to work at Sportex, said
Officer Christopher Hegstrom with MCSO. After Friday’s raid, 23 illegals
were arrested for ID theft. Four others were taken into custody for
outstanding criminal warrants, totaling 27 arrests.

===The
Second Amendment
has always had fair-weather friends. LaRue Tactical, manufacturers of
firearms and firearm accessories, is one company that will never be
accused of
being our fair-weather friend. When New York State passed its
unconstitutional anti-gun law, LaRue swung into action. In a move
reminiscent of Barrett
Firearms’ banning of all sales to California law enforcement (http://www.thegunzone.com/rkba/rkba-50.html)
after California banned .50BMG rifles, LaRue has stated that it will
not sell anything to local law enforcement that it can’t sell to
you and me.

In a news release dated 2-8-13, LaRue
states:

Effective
today, in an effort to see that no
legal mistakes are made by LaRue Tactical and/or its employees, we will
apply all current State and Local Laws (as applied to civilians) to
state and
local law enforcement / government agencies. In other words, LaRue Tactical will limit all sales to what law-abiding citizens residing in
their districts can purchase or possess.

Lest you think that LaRue, more
famous for accessories than anything else, is making an empty statement, take a look at the AR style rifles they manufacture (http://www.laruetactical.com/rifles).New York banned them for sale to citizens, so LaRue
won’t sell them to the NYPD either. Will other firearm manufacturers have the guts to stand up like LaRue and Barrett do?

As an ex-Los Angeles police officer killed three people and went on a
deadly shooting rampage in a vendetta to punish those he attributed for
his firing, California Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer
pleaded for calm, and asked both law enforcement and civilians to lay
down their weapons.

An intense manhunt for Christopher Dorner that aroused fear across several states and Mexico focused late Thursday on Big Bear Lake,
about 80 miles east of Los Angeles, where police found a burned-out
pickup truck that belonged to the ex-military and former police officer
Dorner.
Throughout the day, Senators Feinstein and Boxer made desperate pleas
for their California constituents to turn in their guns and not
confront the crazed gunman because this would be a perfect test of their
anti-gun proposals.

“The Senators feel the best course of action is to remove all weapons
from law enforcement and private citizens so no one else gets hurt,”
said a Senate communications intern. “When the gunman realizes that
nobody else is armed, he will lay down his weapons and turn himself in….
that’s just human nature.”

Long before homosexual activist Floyd Corkins entered the D.C.-based
Family Research Council (FRC) with the intent to commit mass murder, I
warned from the rooftops that the hard-left Southern Poverty Law
Center’s anti-Christian “hate group” propaganda might spur such
bloodshed. With a column headlined, “Liberal violence rising,”
I wrote, “The SPLC’s dangerous and irresponsible (‘hate group’)
disinformation campaign can embolden and give license to like-minded,
though less stable, left-wing extremists, creating a climate of true
hate. Such a climate is ripe for violence.”

Tragically, my deepest fears were realized.

Then, in August, days after Corkins was heroically disarmed by FRC
employ Leo Johnson, whom Corkins shot in the arm, I penned another
column titled “Fanning the flames of left-wing violence.”
I plead with the SPLC to end its “dishonest and reprehensible” strategy
of “juxtaposing FRC and other Christian organizations with violent
extremist groups” in a transparent effort to marginalize them.

“I appeal to your sense of goodwill. This is not a game. Lives are at
stake,” I implored. “I know you have good employees (I’ve met some) who
believe they’re doing the right thing; so, please, validate that
belief. It’s time to remove your metaphorical ‘hate group’ Star of David
from mainstream Christian organizations before another of your
ideological allies spills blood.”

I no longer believe the SPLC has a sense of goodwill. In fact, based
on FBI evidence and the group’s own actions (and inaction), I and many
others are left with no other inference but this: The SPLC – a left-wing
extremist fundraising behemoth – may be intentionally inciting
anti-Christian violence.

In a speech Wednesday night, Vice President Joe Biden implored House
Democrats to continue to fight for gun control legislation despite the
potential political ramifications of doing so.

Biden was visibly
emotional as he spoke of the December school shooting in Newtown, Conn.,
that took the lives of 20 children and six adults and called it a
“profound loss” for America.

“I can imagine how we will be judged as individuals, we will be judged
as a Congress, we will be judged as a nation if we do nothing,” Biden
told House Democrats at their retreat in Lansdowne, Va. “It’s simply
unacceptable.”

Jack Lew, President Obama's nominee for U.S. Treasury secretary, had
an investment in a Cayman Islands fund located in a building known as
home for offshore tax havens that President Barack Obama criticized
during his 2008 campaign.

Lew will be asked about his investment in a Citigroup Inc. fund
during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Finance Committee on
Feb. 13, Senator Charles Grassley, an Iowa Republican, said yesterday in
a statement.

Lew had between $50,001 and $100,000 in the fund, according to a 2009
financial disclosure form. The fund was located in a building known as
Ugland House, according to Securities and Exchange Commission filings
released by Grassley.

Lew, Obama’s former chief of staff and head of the Office of
Management and Budget, was a Citigroup executive before joining the
Obama administration in 2009.

American history proves that, in the past, many of our leaders have
suffered from mental illness. For me, I tend to believe that quite a few
of our Presidents had mental health issues of one kind or another.
After all what person desiring any peace in their lives would want the
job of U.S. President under the best of conditions. However, it appears
that there are an abnormal number of eccentricities residing in
President Obama and I genuinely wonder if he is mentally fit to run our
Republic.

In layman’s terms: Obama is egocentric, always late to work, never
gets his work done one time, takes a lot of time off to recreate and
party, loves to be the center of attention, hates to be questioned,
holds a grudge, associates with reckless ideologues, deludes himself
into believing his own lies, avoids responsibility, never admits he made
a mistake, thinks stealing is perfectly reasonable, has empathy issues,
spends recklessly, has a messiah complex, takes credit for things he
never did, can’t argue honestly, is thin skinned, can’t be trusted to
keep his word, is uncomfortable in public (unless at a distance),
exhibits signs of paranoia and doesn’t have a problem with risky sexual
behavior. Just to name a few of the things causing me to wonder about
his mental fitness.

And this is the man America has elected to—among many other important
issues—walk with a nuclear football and decide if I or any one of us
are an imminent threat to national security?

Personally I don’t think
Obama could pass a drug test, much less a psych exam.

Whether this weekend finds you blowing two feet of snow off the
driveway or counting the hours until "Downton Abbey," make time to watch the video of Dr. Ben Carson speaking to the White House prayer breakfast this week.

Seated in view to his right are Senator Jeff Sessions and President
Obama. One doesn't look happy. You know something's coming when Dr.
Carson says, "It's not my intention to offend anyone. But it's hard not
to. The PC police are out in force everywhere."

Dr. Carson tossed over the PC police years ago. Raised by a single
mother in inner-city Detroit, he was as he tells it "a horrible student
with a horrible temper." Today he's director of pediatric neurosurgery
at Johns Hopkins and probably the most renowned specialist in his field.

Late in his talk he dropped two very un-PC ideas. The first is an
unusual case for a flat tax: "What we need to do is come up with
something simple. And when I pick up my Bible, you know what I see? I
see the fairest individual in the universe, God, and he's given us a
system. It's called a tithe.

Rock music legend Ted Nugent, one of the strongest voices in defense
of the Second Amendment, is making his voice heard loud and clear as the
latest debate over proposed gun-control legislation plays out.

Earlier in the week, Nugent engaged in a feisty debate with CNN host
and gun-control advocate Piers Morgan. Despite the push for more
restrictions on gun rights in Washington and in states around the
country, Nugent fired back with a vigorous defense of what he says is
the overwhelming majority of gun owners.

“99.99 percent of the gun owners of America are wonderful people that
you are hanging around with here today, perfectly safe, perfectly
harmless, wonderful, loving, giving, generous caring people. Would you
leave us the hell alone?” demanded Nugent. “Go after the nut jobs. Go
after the murderers, because I don’t know any.”
Nugent, who is also a National Rifle Association board member and now
a WND columnist, was typically straight-talking with us as he assessed
his confrontation with Morgan.

“I am convinced that Piers Morgan was sent by God to represent
everything that doesn’t agree with Ted Nugent, because you’ve got to be
the devil’s advocate or the devil to argue with me,” Nugent told WND.
“I’m a simple man. I’m 64 years clean and sober. I never went to college
because I was too busy learning stuff. …

“In fact, I’m saving money on dog food this week because I’m just
letting my three Labradors lick the shrapnel from Piers’s skull out of
my boot cleats,” he said.

There is a lot of misinformation circulating about background checks for gun ownership.
Under the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act—which created the
National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS)—all federal
firearms licensees are required to conduct a background check for all
firearms transactions, even if they sell the firearm at a gun show. This
is to make sure that the gun isn’t being sold to a person who is
prohibited from purchasing a gun under Section 922(g) or (n) of Title 18
of the United States Code, which would include convicted felons, people
who have been adjudicated to be severely mentally ill, and people who
have been convicted of a domestic violence offense.

President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, New York City Mayor
Michael Bloomberg (I), and scores of others have repeated the mantra
that approximately 40 percent of all gun purchases are conducted through
private sales at gun shows and are not subject to a criminal background
check. This has become known as the “gun show loophole.”

At a recent Senate hearing, Baltimore County Police Chief James Johnson went so far as to say, “Allowing
40 percent of those acquiring guns to bypass background checks is like
allowing 40 percent of airline passengers to board a plane without going
through airport security.”

What gun control proponents never say, though, is that this
oft-repeated statistic is based on stale data that was grossly
exaggerated even when it was fresh.

Long-term shifts in the U.S. economy coupled with the recent recession
means Americans are more likely to pack up and move for
employment-related reasons. Although the total number of residential
moves is down, new data shows a clear pattern of the states that people
are fleeing the fastest.

Moving company United Van Lines released its 36th annual study
of customer migration patterns, analyzing a total of 125,000 moves
across the 48 continental states in 2012. The study provides an
up-to-date, representative snapshot of overarching moving patterns in
the U.S., and reveals a mass exodus from the Northeast.

At No. 1,
New Jersey has the highest ratio of people moving out compared to those
moving in. Of the 6,300 total moves tracked in the state last year, 62%
were outbound.

“New
Jersey has been suffering from deindustrialization for some time now,
as manufacturing moved from the Northeast to the South and West,” says
economist Michael Stoll, professor and chair of the Department of Public
Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles. “And because it’s
tied to New York, the high housing costs may also be pushing people
out.”

In fact, most of the top-10 states people are leaving are
located in the Northeast and Great Lakes regions, including Illinois
(60%), New York (58%), Michigan (58%), Maine (56%), Connecticut (56%)
and Wisconsin (55%). According to Stoll, this reflects a consistent
trend of migration from the Frost Belt to the Sun Belt states based on a
combination of causes.

Former US Representative from Texas Ron Paul weighs in on the currency war and speaks to Bloomberg’s Sarah Eisen.

He thinks the shift away from paper money and into hard assets has
already started with the housing recovery. But Ron Paul does not believe
in going back to the gold standard but the crisis in paper money is
already upon us…

“Didn't know the Marines had to take the bolts out of their rifles for the Inaugural,” an email forwarded to Gun Rights Examiner
from a United States Marine Corps source observed. “Wonder if someone
can explain why [they] would be marching in the inaugural parade with no
bolts in their rifles!”

The email linked to a YouTube video of the 57th Presidential
Inaugural Parade, embedded in this column, featuring Bravo Company
Marines from the Marine Barracks Washington. Sure enough, the
observation in the email is confirmed by watching the video, with screen
shots provided in the photo and slide show accompanying this article.

This prompted an internet search to see if others had also noticed, and the Blur-Brain blog had.
“The bolts have been removed from the rifles rendering them unable to
fire a round,” the post stated. “Apparently Obama’s Secret Service
doesn’t trust the USMC.
Simply searching each guy to make sure he didn’t have a live round
hidden on him wasn’t enough, they had to make sure the guns were
inoperable.

A fire at a classic car shop in Chesnee on Wednesday afternoon destroyed, among other things, 50 Studebaker cars.

The fire happened about noon at 417 Studebaker Rd.

Cherokee
Creek Fire Capt. Billy Bishop said firefighters arrived to find one of
the sheds on the property collapsed and a tour bus ablaze. He said
eventually two of the three buildings at the scene collapsed, making it
difficult to extinguish the fire.

A federal advisory committee
appointed by the Obama administration to produce a report on climate
change says that if Earth’s climate were still “primarily controlled by
natural factors”—rather than by man-made global warming—then the next
ice age would occur within the next 1,500 years.

But now, because of humans, the committee says, the next ice age has been "delayed indefinitely."
“Confirmation of what are called Milankovich cycles (cyclical changes
in the Earth’s orbit that explain the onset and ending of ice ages)
led a few scientists in the 1970s to suggest that the current warm
interglacial period might be ending soon, plunging the Earth into a new
ice age over the next few centuries,” the advisory committee said in a draft report released last month.

-- A increasing number of House Democrats are bringing people
affected by gun violence as their guests to next week's State of the
Union, with the list now including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi
(D-Calif.) and Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.).

Pelosi announced Friday that she plans to bring a fourth grader from
Newtown, Conn., along with her mother, as her guests to President Barack
Obama's annual address to the nation. A Pelosi spokesman said the
student does not attend Sandy Hook Elementary School, the site of a
December mass shooting, but attends another elementary school in
Newtown. Her office is not releasing the names of the girl or her
mother.

I don't actually agree with that view. A 4MOA AK clone is plenty useful for its intended purpose. But given that we the people are far behind the most probable enemy in firepower, we have two main options. *The first is to close in and so avoid the enemy support weapons.That option is a loser because we are overmatched on the rate of fire,
the amount of body armor, on the availability of grenades and closer
quarters training in general. The second option is to sniper from stand-off distance.
While that makes us vulnerable to indirect support weapons as well as
to vehicle mounted stabilized machine guns and cannon, it gives some
chance of escape without detection.
Absent sufficient explosives to make an ambush count, that means
relying on the first shot hit against distant, armored and possibly
moving foe. The cost in inaccuracy isn't in the ammunition but in the risk of detection and in the the exposure to return fire. In that sense, only accurate rifles with good ammunition and very, very competent shooters are interesting.

Commissioner Sally Kost (progressive liberal) is
already trying to prevent the new Wal-mart that is being built here to not allow guns & ammo to be sold.Sally Kost
in front of Sen Hagan’s Office protesting with Moveon.Org
supporting Obamacare.

Evidently when God made female liberals, he decided that all would be ugly.

We are hearing from liberals who want to stop gun & ammo sales in
our county. We want our County Commissioners to know that these
liberals do “not” represent the majority of people in the county.

They have secretly set up a team of Obama supporters to speak at the
next Chatham County BoC meeting Feb 18 @6pm regarding the new Wal-mart
being built in our county off 15-501 to prevent any ammo or gun sales
at the new store that is presently under construction.

I have no problem speaking openly vs the sneak attack to ambush our
County Commissioners into believing the majority of citizens want a band
on gun & ammo sales in our county.

I urge all 2nd amendment supporters to sign up to speak up at the
public input session at the beginning of the meeting Feb 18th 6pm at the
Agriculture building just behind the circle in Pittsboro. You have 3
minutes to speak.

Link below to sign up for public input
session, just make sure you put correct date and fill out info, you may
ignore the subject and several other questions and just click submit.
This will automatically put you on the list the evening of the BoC
meeting. When you arrive, just ask to check the sign in sheet and your
name should appear on the sheet for public input:

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==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.

Thank you

I would just like you to know how so very glad I am that I found your blog. I have learned more history from you and the many links that you post than I have from reading all my history books. I can never thank you enough for the education you are freely giving me. It is priceless. And eye opening.

Many times I will not comment, but that does not mean I am not reading and learning.

You sir, are an educator. Thank you.

PhyllisWantage, NJ

Good morning Mr. Townsend,

Just to let you know I have finally finished that massive tome on General Lee. I never knew 1/10th of what a great man he was. No wonder the South is so proud of him! So sad that we have few men of his caliber today. We need them desperately. I have learned more history through you and your blog than I thought I could ever learn. I am very grateful to you. Thank you so much for taking time to answer my e-mail. And thank you for your blog and for opening my eyes.

PhyllisWantage, NJ

".......So good to hear from you! And also so pleased you are converting more of us Yankees! You have no idea how many people you have taught. And how many are so grateful to you for showing us the truth."

Your faithful friend,

Phylis

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I have also learned from Brock Townsend and two nurses lately, that appreciation expressed by someone for whom you have great respect overwhelms the lack of appreciation by some from whom you expect it. I believe that we cannot really know which small bit of help makes the life-saving difference. ﻿

I have learned more history from you than all the years I was supposed to be in school (and not out hunting or fishing).

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I really must say, I like thousands of others have said, your blog is the best out there and with all of your history and experience, you should run for *president. I look forward to reading your blog every day and every day I learn from you. Thank you for the time you put into this effort .

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